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Futurology

The future rarely turns out quite as we expect. Pop sci futurists of a generation ago expected us to be flying to work by the dawn of the 21st century. They were almost right: both flying cars and jet packs have just recently moved into the realm of realization. But there is a huge gap…

The long term future may be absurd and difficult to predict in particulars, but much can happen in the short term. Engineering itself is the practice of focused short term prediction; optimizing some small subset of future pattern-space for fun and profit. Let us then engage in a bit of speculative engineering and consider a potential…